Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History NAMED ONE OF THE BEST

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post - Publishers Weekly - Kirkus Reviews - New York Public Library

who by this time had grown up to be quite a pig

which fosters hope

To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause shows how dissidents spearheaded the struggle to break free of the USSR's totalitarian past

How sweet it was

Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History NAMED ONE OF THE BESTA beautifully written personal account of the discovery of late antiquity by one of the world's most influential and distinguished historians The end of the ancient world was long regarded by historians as a time of decadence, decline, and fall. In his career long engagement with this era, the widely acclaimed and pathbreaking historian Peter Brown has shown, however, that the "neglected half millennium" now known as late antiquity was in fact crucial